SEVERANCE — We’ve seen them house small businesses, restaurants, even a hotel. Now shipping containers are considered as primary dwelling units, additional dwelling units, home offices and studios.

Converting a shipping container into a garage is a very real possibility, but there are some important factors to take into ...

Shipping containers have become quite popular lately seeing how they can be repurposed into all sorts of cool housing ...

More than 21,000 shipping containers arrive in the United States on a daily basis. Many of them originate in China, where it is cheaper to build new containers than to ship them back after their ...

The city of Cape Girardeau has not issued a building permit for a proposed shipping-container duplex because the developer has not complied with city requirements, development services director Alex ...

RIO RANCHO, N.M. — On Wednesday, city and business leaders broke ground on “The Block” in Rio Rancho. Mayor Gregg Hull hopes the new development will draw more people to the area. “We started really ...

ATLANTA — The city of Atlanta is working to tackle homelessness -- as about 2,000 people sleep on the streets in the city each night. This summer, the city announced plans to use shipping containers ...

Australian firm Royal Wolf has put its money where its mouth is by creating an office facility out of shipping containers at its depot and fabrication center in Sunshine, Victoria. The company ...

A train horn blared behind an empty lot just west of downtown Reno, the familiar sound of steel on steel ringing in the air as a long line of railroad cars rumbled through the tracks. A few meters ...

When the cost of a single-family home hewn from wood and traditional construction materials is out of reach for many low-income Phoenix residents, and hell, some middle-income earners too – the ...

A development team is building a 52-unit multifamily project out of 130 used shipping containers in West Palm Beach, Florida. When complete, it will be the largest shipping container housing project ...

The culinary world thrives on innovation. Chefs must constantly look for the next flavor profile, the next fusion trend, or ...